As Hillary Clinton’s health continues to be an issue in the final weeks of this year’s presidential contest, there is suddenly a focus on the Democrat’s “mysterious” eye movements during a speech Monday in Philadelphia.

“Hillary’s eyes appeared not in-sync with one another, as the left eye looked to be cock-eyed and displaced, especially as she looked towards the left,” noted John Binder of the American Mirror. The ocular phenomenon even prompted the popular Drudge Report to splash a banner headline reading, “Unfocused.” It featured a black-and-white still shot from Clinton’s appearance. Clinton’s speech in Philadelphia came the same day two doctors told WND the Democratic Party nominee is suffering a serious neurological disease that should disqualify her from being president. ... MORE

The new incentives. In the operating room at the Cleveland Clinic,
Dr. Brian Fitzsimons has long relied on a decades-old drug to prevent
hemorrhages in patients undergoing open-heart surgery. The drug,
aminocaproic acid, is widely used, cheap and safe. “It never hurt,” he
said. “It only helps.” Then
manufacturing issues caused a ... MORE

by Danielle Allen. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. In January 1964, the Beatles first broke onto the Billboard chart with “I Want to Hold Your Hand”; by June, Ringo Starr had collapsed from tonsillitis and pharyngitis. In January , the surgeon general announced
that scientists had found conclusive evidence linking smoking to ... MORE

by Jacob Sullum. After the esteemed actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died in February
2014, press coverage of the "heroin epidemic" exploded. Mentions of that
phrase in the newspaper and wire service articles cataloged by Nexis
rose from 681 in 2013 to 3,222 in 2014, an increase of almost 400
percent. Yet Hoffman—who by his own account used
... MORE

by Jacob Sullum. Last Friday a California jury convicted
Hsiu-Ying Tseng, a Rowland Heights physician, of second-degree murder
in connection with the deaths of three patients who overdosed on drugs
she prescribed. Local prosecutors say this is the first time a doctor
has been convicted of murder in the United States based on allegations
of ... MORE

by Walter Olson. As you probably know if you follow the news, a man named Martin Shkreli in charge of a startup firm called Turing Pharmaceuticals bought the rights to a drug called pyrimethamine (brand name Daraprim), used in the treatment of AIDS and malaria, and announced that he was jacking up its price from $13.60 to $750. ... MORE

by Steve Peoples and Chery Dieu Nalio. Mathieux Saint Fleur has been virtually blind for two decades. In less than 24 hours, he will see again. As the 75-year-old Haitian patient lies on an operating table, a U.S. eye surgeon turned politician reassures him in broken Creole that the surgery is almost over. “People need to be encouraged it’s ... MORE

7 in 10 believe that debt is necessary. America’s debt problem has been widely documented over past few years, and not just the public kind. The average American is swimming in trillions of dollars in medical fees, car payments, mortgage liabilities, as well as credit card statements and college tuitions. However, none of that is shocking ... MORE

The dynamics of government health care. In contrast to the expected shortage of tens of thousands of physicians, there appears to be an abundance of health care administrators. Economists and physician-activists at Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) have invoked the below graph and the administrative bloat it shows as ... MORE

by Veronique de Rugy. How can we produce better health for more people at a lower cost, year
after year? By lifting all the rules and barriers that prevent health
care innovators from bringing new lifesaving products to consumers and
force doctors to beg bureaucrats and insurance administrators for
permission to save lives. For years, free market ... MORE

The incentive to keep patients happy and healthy. For years, my scientist brother Tom was the nonpolitical Stossel. I defended free markets on TV, and he studied blood at Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Mom asked me when I'd get a "real job" like his. Then the crusade against capitalism reached his world. Medical "journalists" ... MORE

by J.D. Tuccille. A friend of mine who worked in pediatric private practice in the Washington, D.C. suburbs had a strict policy on vaccination: If you didn't vaccinate your children, you had to find another practice. He would try to persuade, he would give several warnings, but ultimately, those who didn't vaccinate had to find another provider. ... MORE

by Bill Gardner. Britain’s most senior doctor has said the under-pressure NHS may be forced to abandon the concept of free healthcare for all. Prof Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS in England, said there were doubts over whether the taxpayer-funded model was “sustainable in the longer term”. He added that huge changes ... MORE